Future in his hands ... Mohamed al-Jabiri holds the final draft of the blueprint for a post-Saddam justice system. Photo: Edwina Pickles

The United States has chosen a successor to Saddam Hussein from Iraq's notoriously fractious opposition groups, according to a former Iraqi diplomat who lives in Sydney.

Mohamed al-Jabiri, who has just returned from in talks with Washington, said the White House has given its "blessing" to the head of the Iraqi National Congress, Ahmed Chalabi, to lead a transitional coalition government in Iraq once Saddam has been deposed.

Future in his hands ... Mohamed al-Jabiri holds the final draft of the
blueprint for a post-Saddam justice system. Photo: Edwina Pickles

The United States has chosen a successor to Saddam Hussein from Iraq's
notoriously fractious opposition groups, according to a former Iraqi
diplomat who lives in Sydney.

Mohamed al-Jabiri, who has just returned from in talks with Washington, said
the White House has given its "blessing" to the head of the Iraqi National
Congress, Ahmed Chalabi, to lead a transitional coalition government in Iraq............................

If T.E. Lawrence ("of Arabia") had been a 21st-century neoconservative
operative instead of a British imperial spy, he'd be Ahmed Chalabi's best
friend. Chalabi, the London-based leader of the Iraqi National Congress
(INC), is front man for the latest incarnation of a long-time
neoconservative strategy to redraw the map of the oil-rich Middle East, put
American troops -- and American oil companies -- in full control of the ......................................

And yet these ignorant, brainwashed sheeple STILL support this idiotic scheme.

It will never work, anyway, because the Iraqi people are smarter than that. They see this Chalabi guy for what he is. If they can, they will prevent "our" military from installing him in the first place. If not, as soon as there are no more Amerikan boots over there, they will assassinate the guy, and we will back to square one. Why these bagelsucking idiots don't see that is beyond me. This retarded strategy doesn't even seem to be in THEIR interests. Either way, the end result will be a Vietnam-like quagmire which could go on indefinitely, causing hundreds of thousands of Amerikan casualties.

Hate to say it, but that may be exactly what it takes to wake these f***ers up.

This thread's lead article is a superb piece of research. Here's another excerpt:

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The Chalabi Lobby
Almost to a man, Washington's hawks lavishly praise Chalabi. "He's a rare find," says Max Singer, a trustee and co-founder of the Hudson Institute. "He's deep in the Arab world and at the same time he is fundamentally a man of the West."

In Washington, Team Chalabi is led by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, the neoconservative strategist who heads the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. Chalabi's partisans run the gamut from far right to extremely far right, with key supporters in most of the Pentagon's Middle-East policy offices -- such as Peter Rodman, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser and Michael Rubin. Also included are key staffers in Vice President Dick Cheney's office, not to mention Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA Director Jim Woolsey.

The Washington partisans who want to install Chalabi in Arab Iraq are also those associated with the staunchest backers of Israel, particularly those aligned with the hard-right faction of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Chalabi's cheerleaders include the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). "Chalabi is the one that we know the best," says Shoshana Bryen, director of special projects for JINSA, where Chalabi has been a frequent guest at board meetings, symposia and other events since 1997. "He could be Iraq's national leader," says Patrick Clawson, deputy director of WINEP, whose board of advisers includes pro-Israeli luminaries such as Perle, Wolfowitz and Martin Peretz of The New Republic. Richard Dreyfuss

America is planning to install the leader of a London-based opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress, as the interim president of Iraq once Saddam Hussein is toppled.

Ahmad Chalabi, 57, a Shi'ite exile who fled Iraq with his family when he was 12 and attended a British boarding school, is currently in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq and may remain there until an invasion begins.

"It's pretty clear it's going to be Chalabi, [barring] some dramatic development during the war," a senior Bush administration official told The Telegraph.

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The current plan would be for Mr Chalabi to take over from Gen Franks once a conference of Iraqi opposition leaders could be convened inside the country. A principal American goal would be to hand Iraq over to a democratic government as swiftly as feasible so that US forces could withdraw.